Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
L'Archivio Neural è un archivio di pubblicazioni noi raccolte nel corso degli anni. Sfoglia la nostra collezione qui.
Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
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15.02.02 CodeCon 2002.
S’inaugura oggi al ‘DNA lounge’ di San Francisco (U.S.A.) il CodeCon 2002, una serie di workshops che in tre giorni raccolgono gli sviluppatori più →
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15.02.02 Biophily, amore perverso per la vita.
Biofilia, ossia amore per la vita ma con quella radice (‘filia’, passione) che spesso viene accopiata a qualcosa di eccesivo →
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14.02.02 Nuove telecamere di sorveglianza a Washington.
Secondo il Wall Street Journal il più grande network di telecamere di sorveglianza degli Stati Uniti sta per essere messo →
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14.02.02 Portale di news del sortal, stasera al Forte Prenestino.
Stasera (14/02) alle 21:00 al Forte Prenestino CSOA di Roma si tiene una serata di discussione e →
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14.02.02 Read*Write*Execute* sull’artivism in rete.
Si conclude oggi la rassegna di quattro giorni d’incontri sull’artivism in rete organizzata a Madrid (Spagna) dall’organizzzazione Centrodearte.com. L’evento ha accompagnato l’uscita →
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14.02.02 Petitetune, animazioni per PDA.
Nicknack.org è un progetto di net art che sperimenta con i colori e le simmetrie geometriche, animandole in forme e prospettive cinetiche →
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14.02.02 OpenMusicRegistry, musica con la Open Source Music License.
Un primo tentativo concreto di licenziare musica attraverso la Open Source Music License della EFF è arriva dal →
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14.02.02 Storia della net art.
Curata da Roberta Bosco e Stefano Caldana la ‘Breve Historia del net.art‘ redatta in un comprensibile spagnolo per l’edizione elettronica del quotidiano →
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13.02.02 The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture.
The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture è una mostra inauguratasi negli ultimi giorni alla Vancouver Art Gallery di Vancouver (Canada), →
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13.02.02 “Userai questo PC per fabbricare armi chimiche o biologiche?”.
Alcune precauzioni per l’esportazione dei PC in nazioni considerate rischiose per lo sviluppo di armi possono risultare →
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13.02.02 Net art collaborativa su Google.
Valery Grancher, net artista celebre per il suo progetto ‘No Memory‘, fatto di letteratura che si rincorre all’impazzata in gif animate, →
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13.02.02 immedia 2002.
Organizzato dalla Ann Arbor Michigan’s Electronic Artist Coalition, è in corso Immedia 2002, digital and electronic art exhibition, una rassegna internazionale d’arte elettronica suddivisa →
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13.02.02 10 milioni di cd protetti nei negozi europei e statunitensi.
L’israeliana Midbar ha dichiarato di aver contribuito ad immettere sui →
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12.02.02 Utopian Parkway, net art sull’arte storica.
Fondato nel 1999 da Brad Todd, il collettivo canadese Mobile Gaze è dedicato alla produzione e promozione di lavori d’arte →
